Courts and Crime

A Lynch Station man, facing child porn charges, was granted bond following a hearing Friday in Bedford County Circuit Court.

Bobby Matthew Fisher, 23, is facing six charges connected to an investigation earlier this month.
On August 4 investigators with the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office assigned to the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce (SOVA-ICAC) began investigating a case involving the solicitation of child pornography.

A former golf pro at Bedford Country Club will have to pay back $24,000 he embezzled from the club, but won’t spend any time in jail for his two embezzlement convictions.
Michael Edward Thompson, 47, of Stanley, Virginia, was sentenced to five years in prison on the convictions, but all of that time was suspended by Judge James Updike during his sentencing hearing in Bedford Circuit Court Friday.

Shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday morning (August 19) the Hardy and Stewartsville-Chamblissburg fire companies were dispatched to a reported brush fire in the 1400 block of Gravel Hill Road, in the Hardy area of Bedford County.
When the first units arrived, they determined that this was actually a structure fire, reporting a single-family dwelling with heavy fire showing. Additional fire, EMS and support units from Bedford and Roanoke counties then responded.

On Friday evening August 18, the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office received a call from the Bedford Magistrate’s Office advising a female was in their office reporting that she had been assaulted.
A Bedford County Sheriff’s deputy responded and the woman advised that she had been assaulted by her boyfriend, Brandon Johnson, earlier in the day. She said that Johnson also pointed a shotgun at her and assaulted her with it, according to a report from the BCSO.

On August 1, the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call for an unknown adult male found inside of a Bedford County residence.

The male had exited the home prior to arrival of deputies and investigators with the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce (SOVA-ICAC), according to a report from the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office.
The suspect was located by Virginia Conservation Police soon after the call, sitting in a vehicle in a school parking lot.

On August 4 investigators with the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office assigned to the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce (SOVA-ICAC) began investigating a case involving the solicitation of child pornography.

A 15-year-old child victim living in Bedford County was allegedly solicited online multiple times by a suspect using Facebook Messenger. After multiple search warrants were executed on the electronic service provider, 23-year-old Bobby Matthew Fisher of 2243 Bedford Highway, of his prior convictions.

On August 4, 2017, Investigators with the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office assigned to the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce (SOVA-ICAC) began investigating a case involving the solicitation of Child Pornography.

On August 1, 2017, the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call for an unknown adult male found inside of a Bedford County residence. The male had exited the home prior to arrival of Deputies and Investigators with the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce (SOVA-ICAC), according to a report from the Bedford Countyo Sheriff's Office.

Kasey Wayne Johnson is no longer on the run.
Johnson, who escaped the custody of the Bedford Police Department Aug. 2, was arrested last Saturday in Florida.
Johnson, a 6’1 160 lb. white male born in 1997 and resident of the town of Bedford, was taken into custody in Bay County, Florida. When he was taken into custody he was charged with a larceny in Florida and held on fugitive charges from Virginia.